the conversation Buffy has in the sewer about how she's trying to move on because she's well aware of the problems, but prefers him. And it's really more mature than people give her credit for.
The conversation in the sewer is really good. I've always hated DB's delivery, though. I never believed him.
She gets points because she means well. She loses points for being really clueless. Like you've said to others, ME's portrayal is part of this.
It's not just because she's clueless, though. She really only seems to mean well when it's not about Joyce and Joyce's feelings and Joyce's life. For Joyce, Buffy always seems to come second. And yeah, they did build her up later to make her death more affecting, but I just accept that as a fatal flaw in lots and lots of story-telling. It's a bad technique, but I see it so often I'm kind of bleep it out. It annoyed me more in earlier seasons when I felt like they were trying to show her being a good mother, or cast her in a sympathetic light, and all it looked like to me was she was fucking up her kid.
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The conversation in the sewer is really good. I've always hated DB's delivery, though. I never believed him.
She gets points because she means well. She loses points for being really clueless. Like you've said to others, ME's portrayal is part of this.
It's not just because she's clueless, though. She really only seems to mean well when it's not about Joyce and Joyce's feelings and Joyce's life. For Joyce, Buffy always seems to come second. And yeah, they did build her up later to make her death more affecting, but I just accept that as a fatal flaw in lots and lots of story-telling. It's a bad technique, but I see it so often I'm kind of bleep it out. It annoyed me more in earlier seasons when I felt like they were trying to show her being a good mother, or cast her in a sympathetic light, and all it looked like to me was she was fucking up her kid.